About the Contributors/Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
- About the Contributors/Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
Elizabeth Archampong is a lecturer and head of private law in the Faculty of Law at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Elizabeth has a Ph.D. in equality law from Osgoode Hall Law School.
Janine Benedet is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia, where her research focuses on male sexual violence against women. Her recent research considers the criminal law of sexual assault's treatment of questions of capacity and voluntariness in the contexts of age and (with Isabel Grant) mental disability. She is active in opposing the prostitution and pornography industries as institutions of male violence.
Joan Brockman is a professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and a member of the Law Societies of British Columbia and Alberta. Her publications include Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001); (with Kouri Keenan as first author), Mr. Big: Exposing Undercover Investigations in Canada (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2010); (with Janet Mosher as first editor), Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010); (with V. Gordon Rose), An Introduction to Canadian Criminal Procedure and Evidence (Toronto: Nelson, 2011, 4th edition). She is presently working on a recent SSHRC grant for a publication entitled The Construction of Deviant Professionals: Sex, Lies and Bill(k)ing the State.
Louise Langevin is full professor in the Faculty of Law at Laval University in Québec City and held the Claire-Bonenfant Research Chair on the Status of Women at Laval University from 2006 to 2009. She clerked with the Honorable Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1986 to 1987. She is a member of the Quebec Bar and taught for fifteen years at the Bar School. She has taught in the Faculty of Law at Toulouse University and at Lyon University in France, the University of Ottawa, the University of Montreal, and the University of Sherbrooke. She was president of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers from 1998 to 1999. She is the French editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law and is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Recherches féministes. She is member of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la violence familiale et la violence faite aux femmes, which is a research group on violence on women and in the family at Laval University. She has been quite active in the French-speaking world with the Agence universitaire de la [End Page 557] Francophonie. She teaches and researches in obligations (contracts), civil liability, human rights, and feminist analysis of law. Her main interest in research is the cross-section between civil law and feminist analysis of law. She co-authored Compensating Victims of Sexual and Spousal Abuse (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2002). She also worked on trafficking in women and children in Canada, on women as surety wives, and anti-feminist web sites. She now works on access to justice for women victim of sexual harassment.
Sonia Lawrence is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her research centres on equality, race, and gender, and she is currently serving as director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies and the case comments editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
Ruthy Lazar, L.L.B (University of Haifa, Israel); L.L.M. (University of Ottawa); Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School). Lazar is currently a lecturer in the Law School at the College of Management at Rishon Lezion and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in the following fields. She teaches in criminal procedure, gender and the law, and violence against women. She is also the head of the Women's Rights Clinic at the Law School and at the College of Management. Lazar has just completed a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Haifa, Israel, researching in the area of criminal law.
Lucie Lemonde est professeure et chercheuse au Département des sciences juridiques de la Faculté de science politique et de droit de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle...
